<div class="doc-item" id="doc-1811"><h2 class="doc-item-name">read<span class="namespace">(clojure.core)</span></h2><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">read</span>  )</li><li>(<span class="var-name">read</span>  stream)</li><li>(<span class="var-name">read</span> stream eof-error? eof-value)</li><li>(<span class="var-name">read</span> stream eof-error? eof-value recursive?)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>Reads the next object from stream, which must be an instance of
  java.io.PushbackReader or some derivee.  stream defaults to the
  current value of *in* .</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/core.clj:2072
(defn read
  ([]
   (read *in*))
  ([stream]
   (read stream true nil))
  ([stream eof-error? eof-value]
   (read stream eof-error? eof-value false))
  ([stream eof-error? eof-value recursive?]
   (. clojure.lang.LispReader (read stream (boolean eof-error?) eof-value recursive?))))</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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